“King of the Yees”
at Kirk Douglas Theater
What is Chinatown, and what does it mean to a younger generation who can’t even speak Chinese? The play “King of the Yees” (through August…
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Past and Present: LA Art in the ’90s
13 Artists Celebrate Miller-Durazo in the new Millennium
The recognized History of Art is marked by a movement, our blue-chip Art Stars and our institutions. Often more interesting and dynamic, the smaller histories…
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CURRENT EVENTS: documenta 14
Report from Kassel, Germany
Every five years the sedate city of Kassel, Germany, launches an art expo that attempts to capture the zeitgeist of our times, documenta. This 14th…
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Alice Cooper has discovered an Andy Warhol artwork, more than 40 years after it was given to him as a gift. The rock musician had forgotten about the work, which was being…
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“Creatives” Gather at Art of Freelance
Little Space Gallery
So, the event I’m about to gossip with you about was brought to you by Art of Freelance —a “10-week online course for creatives who…
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As noted in an Artillery Pick quite recently, portraiture is the oldest form of ‘identity art’, and moreover, representation itself. It is ‘naming’ in the…
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KENNY SCHARF
Honor Fraser
“Kenny Scharf: Blox and Bax” at Honor Fraser gallery in Culver City this past spring. This was Scharf’s fifth exhibition with Honor Fraser, featuring back-by-popular-demand…
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Waters World
John Waters' Dreamed Merchandise
Film director John Waters is best known for his trilogy of ’60s and ’70s transgressive cult cinema classics Pink Flamingos, Female Trouble, and Desperate Living. These films…
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Collectively, the works that make up “Interstitial,” now on view at the Pasadena Museum of California Art, read like the detritus one might find in…
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Salvador Dali Corpse Exhumed In Paternity Case Media Circus
Pilar Abel Martínez, 61, has claimed for years that she is the daugher of surrealist genius and says she looks like “Dali without the moustache.”
She is suing the Gala-Salvador Dalí Foundation and the Spanish state, which inherited the surrealist painter’s works in a bid to claim a quarter of…
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We read history for perspective on advancing and collapsing civilizations and their impacts on planetary life and (hopefully) an understanding of historical cycles and a…
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Chinatown Art Buffet
Charlie James; Coagula Curatorial; The Good Luck Gallery; Gregorio Escalante
Chung King Road was a buffet of openings Saturday night, with a variety of gallerygoers overflowing into the street. Like a high school party, there…
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Only one visitor enters Alejandro Iñárritu’s installation CARNE y ARENA at a time. If you’re lucky enough to get a ticket, you’ll begin in a…
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The title of the show is as ironic as it is aspirational. Most of us find ourselves in a place far more culturally fractured than…
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Sprints for the Arts
Writ Large Press' 90x90 series; Cielo Gallery; Wolf and Crane
Sprints. They’re good for the body, in short and intermittent bursts. Are they good for the arts? 90x90LA was a series of inclusive literary events…
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The strategic manipulation and disorientation of material: concrete, paper, ink, and fiber, link the four distinct series displayed in Analia Saban’s “Folds and Faults.” As…
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